Meetings, events to help prepare smart city plan in Coimbatore

COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore Corporation will hold a series of meetings scheduled for the entire week to chalk out plans for the Smart City proposal. While on Monday, senior officials will hold a meeting with ward councillors to get their suggestions for Smart City plan, the zonal-level meetings will also begin the same day. The civic body will also hold meetings with technical experts and industrialists as well, this week.

"On Monday, we will hold a meeting with all ward councillors to get their suggestions for the plan. The same evening, a similar zonal-level meeting will be held in the north zone office. It will continue till all the five zones are covered and will run throughout the week," said K Vijayakarthikeyan, corporation commissioner. Ward councillors, resident welfare association members, representatives from NGOs and residents will participate in this meeting. "I will hold a meeting with various architects, engineers, planners and consultants in the city on Tuesday to get their inputs and suggestions as well," said Vijayakarthikeyan.

A meeting will be held with city industrialists on Wednesday. "We have invited all renowned industrialists to get their inputs," said a nodal officer.

The commissioner will also take part in a workshop that will be held in Chennai on Thursday and Friday. A review meeting has been called for by the state government in which all the shortlisted cities will take part and their progress will be monitored.

The Facebook page of the city has received only 400 likes so far and few suggestions have come from representatives, said an official. Consultant, Ramesh Ramakrishnan of ICRA management consulting services said that they were making progress and were operating as per the schedule. "We will soon conduct polls and meetings with the people. We will start several polls from next week and will stay in touch with schools and colleges to speed up the process," he said.